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October 1956

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  1. 1st October 1956On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  2. 2nd October 1956What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  3. 3rd October 1956Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  4. 4th October 1956Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  5. 5th October 1956Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  6. 6th October 1956What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  7. 7th October 1956Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  8. 8th October 1956What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  9. 9th October 1956What is Passchendaele also known as?
  10. 10th October 1956In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  11. 11th October 1956In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  12. 12th October 1956By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  13. 13th October 1956Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  14. 14th October 1956What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  15. 15th October 1956Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  16. 16th October 1956Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  17. 17th October 1956What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  18. 18th October 1956Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  19. 19th October 1956What was the Privy Council?
  20. 20th October 1956What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  21. 21st October 1956Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  22. 22nd October 1956Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  23. 23rd October 1956What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  24. 24th October 1956What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  25. 25th October 1956In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  26. 26th October 1956Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  27. 27th October 1956Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  28. 28th October 1956What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  29. 29th October 1956What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  30. 30th October 1956What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  31. 31st October 1956Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?